Ireland v Scotland Match Report

Hi All,

As you are aware last weekend the Ireland v Scotland Ladies International match took place in UCD on Sunday. There was a huge amount of preparation, planning and training to get to this stage and the Ladies Squad management team all from Aer Lingus club were responsible for same. The weekend was deemed a huge success from the organisation point of view but sadly the Irish team lost 3-2 to Scotland on the day. But a huge congratulations to all the management team for all the hard work and planning and organisation as the weekend went off with a hitch. Mark as head coach along with assistant coaches Rebecca and Tara have spent many months and a huge amount of time and effort in getting the Irish squad ready for this weekend. And also to Team Manager Liz Barry who organised all events, accommodation, transport, food and all the other logistics throughout the weekend. The whole (Aer Lingus) Management Team can be very proud of their selves and on behalf of the club I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate them all on a great weekend and all their hard work and efforts over those many months. A well deserved rest to all and in particular to Liz (the sleepless nights are over at last).

Ladies Squad Management Team

Mark Delahunty Head Coach

Rebecca Drummond Asst Coach

Tara Dawson Asst Coach

Liz Barry Team Mgr

On Saturday Aer Lingus Premier Ladies play the Scottish Team in a friendly and beat them 2-0. Many congratulations to our girls on a fantastic performance and it just shows the strength and depth of our Premier Ladies team who have had huge success over the last number of years in League and Championship. Craig Faill the Head Coach of Scotlands Senior Women’s National Team Programme

wrote in his match report "Aer Lingus have been reigning Champions for many years and they have been together for all that time. No-one can really compete with them in Ireland." high praise for our Premier Ladies Team

Aer Lingus V Scotland Match Report

Last Saturday our Premier Ladies took on Scotland in a 2 set training game during Scotland’s build up to the International match on Sunday against Ireland. It was a closely fought game from the outset, with Scotland attacking hard and taking an early lead. Our ladies soon battled back with some great defending and intelligent attacking, followed up by some strong serving. Scotland made some crucial serving errors which resulted in our ladies taking the first set 25-18. The second set Scotland again took an early lead and with their top 6 players all on court, they were starting to show their true ability. Again with some outstanding defending and great serving our ladies kept their composure and fought back to even the score and eventually take the set 25-20.

The Irish Senior Ladies Volleyball Team took on their Scottish equivalent in a one-off International match last Sunday 16th October in UCD Belfield. The atmosphere was exciting with an excellent crowd behind the Irish Ladies as they headed into their first major International match in 18 months. Both teams are working towards the European Small Countries Tournament, held every two years, the next one in May 2012. From the outset it was clear that this was going to be a closely fought match and the crowd weren’t disappointed. The opening set began point for point before Scotland took an early lead. Ireland then began to gather some momentum and turned the game around in the later part of the set, going on to win it 27-25. Sets 2 and 3 were dominated by Scotland and Ireland struggled to deal with their deceptive setting and strong attacking, losing them 25-15 and 25-17. Set 4 was a different story, Ireland came to life again with some strong serving and intelligent wing attacking by Anita Dowling which put Scotland under a lot of pressure and caused several errors by the Scots. Ireland went on to take the fourth set and back to level peggings. The 5th set was all one-sided with Scotland taking an early lead and never losing it, eventually taking the set 15-6, much to a delighted Scotland team and a disappointed Irish team and crowd. MVP of the match was the Scottish setter Number 14 Elaine Krawczyk.